drain in action

Bright town on a dark river

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October 5th 2006
Hello everyone! The seasons are changing here in Buenos Aires - it is Spring so we got showered by rain yesterday afternoon. Good thing we were indoors at a shop until it was managable to walk in the rain without getting drenched. Good times, eh? So strange though: due to the morning being so gorgeously sunny we went back home to change and leave our coats behind I felt badly once the down po ... read more

South America » Uruguay » West » Colonia del Sacramento

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A violent Marxist urban guerrilla movement, the Tupamaros, launched in the late 1960s, led Uruguay's president to agree to military control of his administration in 1973. By yearend, the rebels had been crushed, but the military continued to expand i... ... read more